Radio broadcast .. (1922-30)

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A Few More Books About Radio 165 tion for the young boy who would build his own wireless set, in THE BOOK OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY, by A. Frederick Collins; D. Appleton and Company, New York. 227 pages, illustrated; price, $1.50. There is, we repeat ; but it is rather hard to find much of it in the mass of pictures of every old-fashioned instrument from the Leyden jar to the tuning-helix. In bringing the book, which was originally published in 1915, up-todate, the author or publishers have apparently forgotten to throw out a great quantity of material that no young boy, starting in to-day to make his radio set, would have any use for. One unconscious purpose served by this book is to show how much neater and more efficient our present-day home-built apparatus is than the stuff turned out six or seven years ago. Radio progresses too quickly to allow the text and diagrams of several years ago to be successfully reprinted and served up as a modern textbook for young boys. To read this book is something like picking up a best-seller of the vintage of '75 and doing your best to plow through a few pages of it. Invariably, you lay it down with a sigh, sadder if not wiser. Just think — it was once alive! You know how Hamlet must have felt when, picking up the skull of one whom he had long forgotten, he said: "Alas— poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio!" A book of interest to the experimenter is the RADIO EXPERIMENTER'S HANDBOOK, by M. B. Sleeper; The Norman W. Henley Publishing Co., New York, 1922, 143 pages, illustrated; price, $1.00. This is characteristically a Sleeper work. It is exceedingly well illustrated and is full of explanations of the various kinks and wrinkles which come only from the pen of an author who knows whereof he writes. This little book tells, in a very practical manner, a great deal about transmitting, receiving, the new fire laws, etc. 1 1 is particularly helpful to the enthusiast who listens on long waves. A volume that has been written as a guide to those who have not followed radio from its beginning is the STANDARD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RADIO APPARATUS, by A. Howland Wood; Perry & Elliott Company, Boston, Mass., 1922, 128 pages, illustrated; price, $2.00. Special attention has been given in this book to making the reader familiar with the symbols used in radio, and the devices they represent are depicted beside the symbols. A glossary of terms used in radio has been included and there are chapters on the proper method of '..stalling and operating sets. The chapter on receivingset costs, which also points out the approximate ranges over which various receiving combinations may be expected • to function, should be helpful. A chapter describing the construction of a 5 -watt radio telephone transmitter is also included. Another book, and one which has been needed for some little while, is How TO RETAIL RADIO, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1922, 226 pages, illustrated; price, $3.00. This is a discussion of the subject of radio merchandising. Part of the matter described and illustrated includes What Successful Radio Retailing Requires, Choosing a Radio Store Location, Good Business Records Make Good Profits, financing the Radio Department, What Kind of Stock and How Much, Displaying Radio Goods in the Window and Store and How a Club Room for Amateurs Builds Sales. The subject matter has been taken from the writings of such merchandising authorities as Stanley A. Dennis, C. W. Muench, Frank Farrington, F. W. Christian, J. C. Milton, J. S. Older, Roi B. Woolley, Harry A. Mount, C. S. Funnell, and Arthur H. Lynch. It is indeed a good book for any radio merchant. One of the most comprehensive descriptions of the Armstrong super-regenerative circuit is THE ARMSTRONG SUPER-REGENERATIVE CIRCUIT, by George J. Bit?, Jr., A. I. E. E., Radio Directory Publishing Co., New York, 1922, 52 pages, illustrated, price $1.00. The work is as non-technical as a very technical subject will permit. The subject is covered from the point of view of the practical operator rather than the technician, for the man who is